Is it responsible storytelling, to sugarcoat the bitter pill of the housing crisis that harmed a vast number of American families? This is ultimately a story about how unregulated, rotten-to-the-core capitalism allowed our banks, in cahoots with the government, to eat it’s own children. That’s just not funny, no how, no way.
Experienced comedy director Jay Roach provides a great satirical commentary on our current political state, yet it quickly fizzles to a screeching halt with an underwhelming conclusion.